Picture in my town
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@george-k said in Picture in my town:
With all that being said, no one knows for sure why Hofmann built the tower. Some people believe it was a tribute to his wife who passed in 1902. Others say he was inspired by the bridge towers of Germany, his family’s homeland. A common assumption is that he simply constructed the tower as a tourist attraction.
I'm not sure whether you use the term in the US but in England, we call this kind of construction a 'folly'.
wrote on 9 Jan 2022, 15:40 last edited by@doctor-phibes said in Picture in my town:
I'm not sure whether you use the term in the US but in England, we call this kind of construction a 'folly'.
Kinda like building a coast guard station in West Virginia.
We Americans call that "pork".
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Morning walk? Lovely.
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@Mik said in Picture in my town:
Morning walk? Lovely.
Nah. Just some pics someone posted on FB. These are different days, of course. The second picture shows the bridge from which the first picture was taken.
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wrote on 27 Oct 2022, 14:59 last edited by
The first picture reminds me of a good place to scan the city, in search of crime to thwart. I'm always on the lookout for those sorts of places.
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@Mik said in Picture in my town:
Morning walk? Lovely.
Nah. Just some pics someone posted on FB. These are different days, of course. The second picture shows the bridge from which the first picture was taken.
wrote on 28 Oct 2022, 02:45 last edited by@George-K Beautiful pictures!
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You can see Chicago in the distance.
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It was really foggy here last night.
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@George-K said in Picture in my town:
It was really foggy here last night.
Nice one! Very nice indeed!
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A slightly different take:
And what it looked like in about 1875.
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@George-K said in Picture in my town:
Holy shit that's a great one.
Did you trainspot to get that one?
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@George-K said in Picture in my town:
Holy shit that's a great one.
Did you trainspot to get that one?
wrote on 3 Feb 2023, 12:01 last edited by@Aqua-Letifer not my picture!
Some guy in my town's FB group posted that.
I live on the BNSF "raceway." There are literally dozens and dozens of trains that pass through here every day. For example, the Metra (which you see in this photo) runs from Aurora to Chicago. There are 44 trains that make that trip, and the same number back west. That's 88 trains.
Add to that a dozen Amtrak trains (California Zephyr, Southwest Chief, Carl Sandburg ) for another 6.
We're up to 94 trains a day, and I haven't counted freights headed in and out of the Cicero yards.
I would guess there's about 150 trains a day coming through town.
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